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Optimized tracing of iCF-enabled programmable data planes

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Lucas Castanheira,

Alberto Schaeffer-Filho,

Theophilus A. BensonAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCOMM '20: Proceedings of the SIGCOMM '20 Poster and Demo Sessions

Pages 91 - 93

https://doi.org/10.1145/3405837.3411376

Published: 14 September 2021 Publication History

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Programmable data planes (PDPs) allow for processing functionality to be placed inside the network, in the form of in-network compute functions (iCFs). However, the crossing over from server into the more constrained PDP devices makes diagnosis challenging.

We present the design of a tracing framework, which extends server tracing into PDPs. This framework uses annotations to collect and encapsulate trace data into a tracing abstraction, and offers a query language with a high-level interface for performing usual tracing tasks. Finally, we employ domain-specific optimizations, co-designing hardware and software, for trace data aggregation and processing.

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Optimized tracing of iCF-enabled programmable data planes
1. Networks
  1. Network architectures
    1. Programming interfaces
  2. Network services

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SIGCOMM '20: Proceedings of the SIGCOMM '20 Poster and Demo Sessions

August 2020

96 pages

ISBN:9781450380485

DOI:10.1145/3405837

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